ATHENS — At the foot of the Hill of the Muses in Athens, classical music fills the apartment where Cihan Tutluoglu lives with his husband Alexandros Massavetas.
The couple’s bookshelves are lined with volumes celebrating the history and culture of both Tutluoglu’s native Turkey and Massavetas’s Greece, and paintings of Athens and Istanbul adorn the walls.
Diplomatic ties between the historic rival nations are once again strained over conflicting eastern Mediterranean border and energy claims.
But couples like 44-year-old Massavetas, who is a writer, and Tutluoglu, a 38-year-old economics journalist, are used to distancing themselves …
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